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carried before us the torch of scientific inquiry into 

 the dark recesses of mystery, and shed a flood of light 

 on perhaps long-concealed magnificence and beauty. 

 The youth, aroused to the sublime feeling of wishing 

 at least to follow great men in independent research- 

 es, may be animated if in a hall like this each divis- 

 ion were ornamented with the portraits of the fore- 

 most of those discoverers who through ages advanced 

 knowedge to the standard of the present day. 



" Deeds of great men all remind us 

 We can make our lives sublime. 

 . And departing leave behind us 



Footprints on the sands of time. 

 " Though oft depressed and lonely, 

 Our fears are laid aside, 

 If we remember only 

 Such also lived and died. 

 ' ' Learn from the grand old masters, 

 Or from the bard sublime, 

 Whose distant footsteps echo 

 Through the corridor of time." 



LoNorELLOW. 



Discovery proceeds step by step. Commenced by 

 original thinkers, enlarged by sedulous experimenters, 

 fostered by the thoughtful portion of the community, 

 and by any administration of high views, it is util- 

 ized by well-directed enterprise, and marches onward 

 steadily in its progress. Guttenberg and his collabo- 

 rators gave us the printing art, which has done more 

 to enlighten the world than all other mechanisms 

 taken together ; and though four centuries have alter- 

 ed much in the speed and cost of producing prints, 

 they have not materially changed the forms of this 

 glorious art, as the beautifully-decorated pages of the 

 earliest printed Bibles testify. Thus we have reason 

 to be yet daily grateful for this invaluable gain from 

 the genius of days long passed. 



